Wii shop channel music is pretty much the go to background music of every youtuber ever.

To me, any system music from the Wii or Wii U is your go-to nostalgia.

What do you think is the most a e s t h e t i c song in video game history? let me know!

Underwater music in Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald

Yes!!! Lsd dream emulator IS vaporwave in game form. Practically a vaporwave emulator. Also pad you should check out the entire soundtrack to bust a move 4 on the dreamcast

Fantastic list Pad! Brought back so many memories! :D I think video game music in general contained many roots of this genre! Some of my faves include: After the Dream - NiGHTS into dreams (Sega Saturn) New Age - Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 12 (PC) In The Clouds - Super Bonk (SNES) Astal OST (Sega Saturn) Starship Titanic OST (PC) (crazy ambience to this one!) Jazz Jackrabbit 2 OST (PC) Birdman - Pilotwings (N64) Keep up with the awesome coverage! ^_^

Ape Escape, Legend of Dragoon, Chrono Trigger, Cybernator, Megaman 8, Batman NES, F-Zero, Final Fantasy 6, Mario Paint

Final Fantasy VII and X, the soundtrack albums on Spotify feel like vaporwave Albums all their names are in japanese too😂

Ive been listening to Gran Turismo 3 and 4 menu music lately

Gotta love the panflute music from mario 64s file select

This is my new favorite video from you.

Great video! The Jolly Roger song from Mario 64 is titled "Dire, Dire Docks" on the official S64 OST. Also I was happy to see some David Wise on this list. Personally I would have chosen "In a Snow-bound Land" from DKC2, but no complaints about your picks either.

s p a c e d t e x t and videogame background songs are the most a e s t h e t i c c things in vaporwave. great video, pad!

Bro YES! Forbidden Memories is vaporwave af, I'm glad you included it. So much nostalgia attached to that game for me. Good times.

These were some really good picks! For me, maybe they don't have vaporwave esthetic per se but man did I love how calming Sirena Beach from Super Mario Sunshine and the background music from Marble Blast Ultra were!

My picks for most a e s t h e t i c game tracks: - Crystal Drops, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (Michiru Yamane) - Phendrana Drifts, Metroid Prime (Kenji Yamamoto) - Time Station, Ape Escape (Soichi Terada) - The Manta Ray PS1 Tech Demo that came on those demo discs.

HELL YEAH VIDEO GAME SOUNDTRACKS ARE EPIC

That specific era of Lego, 1996-2000 I would say, has an otherworldly quality to it. Back when its old motto was on every box, "Just Imagine..." and some sets had a blue sky background on the box... I do remember finding the OST of Lego Island beautiful. I'd go to certain areas of the game just to hear the music. I really miss that time of Lego. It's extremely nostalgic for me.

Great selection here. I love these choices. I often listen to quite a few of these tracks.

Great video once again Pad! I loved going through all these tracks i havent heard in years like freddy fish and diddy kong racing and songs i've never heard before like the lsd dream emulator track and roll away. Here's some of my personal favorites i'd recommend for that dreamy, aesthetic vibe. Zora Cape - Ocarina of Time Sky and Sea - Mario Sunshine You've come far, Ness - Earthbound Rainbow Resort - Kirby's Adventure Shooting Star Summit - Paper Mario 64 The Great Boggly Tree - Paper Mario Thousand Year Door Garage - Fzero GX Bubbly Washing Machine - Super Monkey Ball 2 Law's Theme - Tekken 2 Tidal Tempest - Sonic CD JP Summer Forest - Spyro 2 Observatory - Majora's Mask

Finally some lego island rep, I love that game. If I had to to add a song it would probably be Legend of Zelda Oot title theme. The theme itself is so soothing and not something I expected when I first booted up the game, but it's a very welcome addition.

Corridors of Time from Chrono Trigger. Factory Inspection from Kirby 64. Aquatic Ambiance from Donkey Kong Country. That is all.

Earthbound - Deeper in Ness' Subconscious and Sea of Eden would've been top tier choices for this

The closer to #1 you got and I still hadn't seen Aquatic Ambience the more worried I was getting

Pad dude I just like to say that Im happy to see your channel grow as the arc of synthwave, future funk, and vaporwave spread out over the world. You and many others have inspired me so much when it comes to the sounds of the 80's.

Wanted lego island to be 1st, was not dissapointed.

great video! i really liked n64's jolly Roger bay song, it is so relaxing!!

Ape Escape OST by Soichi Terada is the shinning example of proto-Vaporwave. Best by far is Time Station, sad to not see it on the list, but oh well there's still plenty of great OSTs on here. great video btw!

Congrats on the 30k subs pad!!!

DAAAAMN I WAS ABOUT TO MENTION THE BOMBERMAN 64 SAMPLE

Great idea for a video and well put together. Cheers. Those underwater levels were very nostalgic. One of the tunes I remember trying to download on soulseek was two many cats from the James Pond II Robocod game.

First bomberman, kirby, now Freddi fish, Pad you are a man of class!

Lovely video, i agree that all of them are nostalgic and very very beautiful in their own way, pure magic, i'll try to take samples from those as well ;)) love for you buddy

Oh hell yeah! Glad to see some Elebits love!

My boi pad with the quality content how does he do it every time!

Okay literally none of the games I'm about to mention have aesthetic or vaporwave visuals or music, but the whole Cuphead soundtrack, Spanish Sahara from Life is Strange, the Save Room theme from Resident Evil 0, the whole Mario Kart Wii soundtrack, the X-Naut Fortress music from Paper Mario and the Thousand Year Door, the music box songs from FNaF, the whole Undertale soundtrack, Final Fantasy battle music, the Song of Healing from Majora's Mask, and Gerudo Valley from Ocarina of Time always hit me right in the nostalgia. I'm pretty young so my nostalgia is in different places obviously, but holy heck I love all of these games and their soundtracks

Oh and the character customize theme from tekken tag 2. It's future funk played at a doomy vapor tempo. It's called "your sunset"

I'm so late on watching this video but I'm so glad I watched it now. This was simply said beautiful. Thanks for the video and have a nice rest of your day to whoever reads this. ❤️

I never realized how aesthetic the wii menu music was until I heard Romantic Memories from REGRET. So good

Great vid, you should cover more topics related to video games!

Dragon Quest doesn't have"vaporwave" music perse but the feeling you get with the such is here for sure.

the lego information centre theme instills fear into me to this day, I used to be terrified of the sharks (they were through the door I think?)

I just love the information center from Lego Island, there's just something about it man.

I need to get these tracks and make a playlist. Good stuff man 👍

Some strong picks here, definitely. As for some recommendations: First off, the oldest 𝑨 𝑬 𝑺 𝑻 𝑯 𝑬 𝑻 𝑰 𝑪 game track I can think of is Marble Madness - "Practice Race" (the later arranged version for FM Towns is especially good). Mario Paint - "Mysterious" International Track & Field 2000 (PS1) - "Results" (seriously, this one is fantastic) Einhänder - "Earthlight" Art of Balance - "Title Screen" Digimon World - "File City (Night)" Namco Museum Vol. 1 - "Museum" Honestly a lot of tracks from the Japan-only Mario Artist games.

and I think soundtracks from Amiga and Atari ST games could be made into real vaporwave goodness. 16-bit sounds are underrated comparing with 8-bit ones, since we've already have chiptunes nearly all about 8-bit. europeans should have their own nostalgia about these (but I'm Asian xD) anyway, home computers like those are huge back then. and even sounds from Sinclair ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC also could be done so.

I remember playing the roll away demo at one point, I collected PS1 demos that came with the PlayStation magazine at the time

PS1 Tomb Raider 1 & 4 main themes are amazing, Earthbound- Sunrise & onett theme, OOT Spirit temple, Devil May Cry 5 - The Crunching Rhythm of Chiba “Rakkasei”, 1080° Snowboarding - lost , Smash bros brawl -Sticker Album and my personal favorite: Metroid Prime - Phendrana drifts. great video as always Pad

SNES/SFC Racing games had the best soundtracks in 90's. Top Gear 2's entire soundtrack, Kat's Run: Zen Nihon K Car Senshuken's soundtrack, Top Gear Rally 64's coastline, and even Lego Racers to a degree. Man I was kid during the right generation......

Finally someone touches on Yugioh forbidden memories library music, i would spend hours just scrolling through library looking at cards and jank 3D models while listening to this it's almost therapeutic :)

I woke up with this banger of a video!

the entire Rush 2 extreme racing USA soundtrack (even though it's more outrun than vaporwave). the music is a perfect representation of an old 90's racing game that wants to hype the player by giving you this feeling that wants to make you go as fast as you can possibly go. plus I loved the maps, they were colorful and used allot of neon lights (especially that map where you can do allot of stunts)

Turok the Dinosaur Hunter’s underwater Music was also both nostalgic and aesthetic to me. I was never supposed to play it as a kid, but I HAD to play anything with dinosaurs on them and my parents eventually let me rent it from Blockbuster. Never got past the second level, but I still loved it!

Holy crap man! Roll Away! I haven't played that game in almost 2 decades. That game was addictive and weird and yeah the soundtrack was alot of fun too. Way to be awesome Pad!

The Warioland 4 OST feels very aesthetic to me, the crappy sound quality and garbled voices really add to it. Doodle Woods is probably my fav from it.

The whole DKC trilogy has the best soundtrack out there, but one that gets overlooked when it comes to a e s t h e t i c is DKC3's Pokey Pipes. It's dark, gritty, and full of atmosphere!

The madness that is the Evergrace OST

5:16 Huzzah! A man of quality!!

The most a e s t h e t i c gaming tune I have ever heard is definitely Distant Scenery, from a little indie game called 2064: Read Only Memories... The synths and the sax on the background makes you feel like on a tropical cruise with that late evening orange sky while the sun is setting... Love that game and that music a lot!

This is such a good topic, but now I'm craving for a pink dolphin slushy. The whole Lego soundtrack TBH is top notch, I wish I could get it running on my Mac.

People hated on it a lot but personally one of my favorite games was Xenosaga II. The background music IS straight up vaporwave. I think that's a big reason why vaporwave resonates so much with me :)

*_The perfect list._*

I remember on Mario & Sonic at 2008 Beijing Olympics on DS, there was a bonus feature where you could play a jukebox of classic music from both Mario and Sonic games. Pretty sure that jukebox was the beginning of my synthwave/Vaporwave obsession 🥺

Banjo Kazooie, when you hit the top of the mountain on the beach world. The white noise wind whistles.

Ok I’ve deleted 2 comments just because it’s so hard for me to choose which game has the most aesthetic song. After awhile, I figured it out. The OST for the Sonic Mega Collection (I think that’s what it’s called) for the PS2 gives me hella nostalgia everytime I hear it. It’s synth ambience brings me back to a time where I used to go to my grandma’s daycare. She had a ps2 upstairs set up just for me with that game. Seriously, the 2 or 3 songs they made just for the menus of that game are high key some of the best music in gaming.

I'm a big fan of the Lego Island OST too! That "Hospital" theme brings me back to a simpler time.

I was never into Yu-Gi-Oh as a kid, so thank you for demanding that I listen to that awesome track!

@10:40 isn't this Dire Dire Docks? I never realized they had the exact same background music!

The forecast channel on the Wii had some absolute gems imo, that and some Wii sports music always give me some nice vapor vibes.

Literally any music from the n64 and ps1 most of my favorite osts and tracks come from those games from those amazing consoles

Oh god the memories! Nostalgia overload

My god that Lego island track brought back so many memories

The Birdman Stage of Pilotwings 64, man that was one of the most aesthetic songs I remembered from that game.

Oh bomberman 64 right off the bat! I love you dude! So many memories.

Pad you should check the police station theme from Parasite Eve PS1 game as well!! It is called "Out of Phase". Vibin af!

Stickerbrush Symphony in DKC2 is also amazing. Video game music really deserves its due with music nerds cause it had so much inspiration in Vaporwave and Hip-Hop. A few recommendations that I don’t think others have mentioned: -Anodyne 1&2 (and other Analgesic Production games): Definitely some aesthetic driven games to a degree, but just very unique, strange games. The music is a mix of ambient music and slightly more melodic and upbeat songs. Hard to describe, but both lovely soundtracks. -Super Monkey Ball Series has some super nice tunes -Ecco: Defender of the Future (the other ecco games too - like, c’mon, it’s too on the nose) -Spyro 2&3 have some really catchy tunes. -Gimmick/Mr. Gimmick for the NES (absolutely amazing NES soundtrack, with the beach theme especially fitting the bill for vaporwave aesthetics) -Kirby’s Return to Dreamland- Aurora Area -Since Vaporwave artists love weird old games, MOON: Remix RPG Adventure has great music of many genres.

Mario 64 sea theme is so upbeat seapunk wow

I'm SO happy you have LSD Dream Emulator on this list!!! It's such a classic. You should really check out the rest of Osamu Sato's discography for more vaporwave sounding tracks. He's recently come back from being radio silent and has released some great albums!

these are great! Outrun, Glover and Bomberman hero are ones to check out too

*COOKING AND POPPING INTENSIFIES*

That Donkey Kong Country aquatic track got me into Vaporwave...powercut used it for ‘me and my vector’

Fzero Maximum velocity - Race Results and Credits music ,also Tekken 4 Beach and Airport stage is one of the gems I knew long way before since my childhood

oh man ! you just remmebered me the existend of roll away, i used to play that game as a kid and to love it, it was so non sensical but great

1) Aquatic Ambience - DKC 2) Save Room - Resi Evil 2 3) Stickerbrush Symphony - DKC2 4) JRB - Mario 64 5) The Lab - Resi Evil 2

Unrelated question to the video, does vaporwave have more a 90s aesthetic or 80s aesthetic? I'm having a debate with a friend and I'd want your opinion on it btw, great video man

This isn’t necessarily aesthetic, but one song that always gets me going is the song towards the end of Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box; I unfortunately can’t remember the title, but it’s the music box song that plays when they finally open the box and begin reading Sophie’s letter. My parents bought the game for me when I was 10 and we were living in Germany, so it brings back a lot of specific memories from that turning point in my life

Love that Kula World is in this video, underrated game imo

with me, id say 1. the entire soundtrack for Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga 2. Coconut Mall 3. Dragon Quest IX soundtrack 4. SNES Rainbow Road 5. Great Fairy Fountain 6. Diddy Kong Racing's Darkmoon Caverns 7. Diddy Kong Racing's Star City 8. Super Mario Galaxy Soundtrack (rather cinematic, and i like that) 9. Walugi Pinball 10. Nintendo Wii Ambient Noise 11. (possibly my favorite) Mariokart Wii's Wii Channel Music

This really took me back

starlight zone from sonic 1 would be my pick, always makes me sentimental when i hear it

Haven't watched the video yet. Just going to guess that Aquatic Ambience from Donkey Kong is on the list. Edit: yup

the soundtrack to ghost in the shell sac (ps2) is aesthetic af

Cooking, and popping? Popcorn I assume? Nice video!

as a brazilian, i find that english words, specially in games, hold the same type of exoticism that americans/europeans have for japanese texts, because even though ive played countless hours of games on PS1/SNES/PS2, I, and nearly everyone that wasnt wealthy enough for english classes did not speak a single word of english, and many games came here as kind of "illegal" goods, since it was absolutely impossible to find original games, so there were absolutely no games in portuguese, only in english and japanese. the wii shop for instance is a song that makes me feel like a child on a foreign frontstore window, not being able to access stores outside my country because of region locking, and having to "hack" it to access and not having an international credit cards to buy anything, or even understanding any of the texts there. youtube and internet changed the game for me :)

Hey Pad! Man I missed Hat in Time OST on this list, it's a much newer game than all others featured on the video, but they made an specifically vaporwave song for it. There's also the underwater time rift theme which really invoques the same floaty dreamy feeling, I suggest you check it out if you haven't already!

Aquatic Ambience is so good, and slightly sombre

Well. I have a lot of favorite games...but, this game in particular is pretty much built on 80's aesthetics and stuff. it's called *_Hotline Miami._* It's a fun challenging surreal top-down shooter with bright and neon color schemes with an intriguing story. Plus the music is awesome too. There's also a second game that is just as good as it's predecessor and....a bit more depressing lmao.

12:16 No Pad, I wanna set sail with you

I feel like the soundtrack for castlevania IV is pretty overlooked and had some really fantastic tunes

with me I'd say 10. History- Sonic mega collection 9. Angler's Tunnel- Link's awakening remake 8. Star city- Diddy kong racing 7. the entire astro boy the omega factor soundtrack 6. Cascade caper- Donkey kong country 3 (GBA version) 5. Pilotwings 64 Glider theme 4. Space queens- Sonic X-treme (cancelled Saturn game) 3. Main menu- Inspector Gadget crazy maze 2. The entire majora's mask soundtrack 1. The entire ocarina of time soundtrack